Table 1.

Twenty-eight-day Mortality Rate in Patients with ACLF According to the Presence or Absence of Precipitating Events at Enrollment in the CANONIC Study.^d

Characteristics	Patients with the characteristic (%)	Patients without the characteristic (%)	P value
One or more precipitating eventsa	34.0	34.2	0.97
More than one precipitating eventa	36.8	33.6	0.70
Active alcoholism within the 3 months before hospital admissionb	31.3	34.7	0.62
Bacterial infection at enrollment	36.7	33.0	0.54
Other precipitating events at enrollmentc	40.0	33.6	0.52

^aExcluding gastrointestinal hemorrhage.

^bActive alcoholism was defined as more than 14 drinks per week in women and more than 21 drinks per week in men.

^cOther precipitating events included therapeutic paracentesis without use of intravenous albumin, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting, major surgery, acute hepatitis, and alcoholic hepatitis.

^dAdapted from Ref. 7.